I know this sounds bad, but I really don’t care about volunteering or nonprofits. That said, I know that I need ECs to get into business school. Do I just have to fake it until I make it or are there other impactful activities that I can do outside of work? I have 2+ years until I apply so anything is on the table for me.

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I now understand why ECs matter at all and feel better about my ECs

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Lol samw

There has to be something you care about even if it's not necessarily volunteering/nonprofits. Is there a hobby that you can turn into a passion project? Can you get involve with giveback at your firm?

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So you don't want to save the world. That's fine; the world's past saving, and business schools want a well rounded class. But then what do you do, besides consulting?

Personally, doing ECs for the sake of checking boxes has always struck me as one of the most myopic things about this process. Forget about the time wasted, or that adcoms can see through serving lunch at a homeless shelter each year around thanksgiving. Purely from an app perspective, this is one of the only parts of your submission where you get to be a person. It can connect to your work, or not; it can be part of your background, or not; it can be completely off the wall, or not. I doubt anyone gives a damn whether you're running a startup in your garage or cleaning up trash on the side of a highway or learning to build wooden sailboats, though there are gradations in these things and all others. But if you don't have anything in your life that you do because you want to, well, why do you want this degree?

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If you didn’t have to work or think about money, what would you be doing with your free time? Pursue that.

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What about personal passions? For example, i run a food blog for fun and grew it significantly in following, would something like this be of interest for adcoms?

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What is “significant following” considered these says?

I started a side business. It's small and only makes $6000 a year but it helped me get into an M7. If you like money start a business. You can't not like money...

What about independence requirements with your firm? What did you put in your story about this?

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